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The rules of covering Donald Trump

By Dylan Byers

02/23/14 02:39 PM EST

For your Sunday viewing pleasure: a smart Reliable Sources interview with BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins and POLITICO's Maggie Haberman on how the media should treat Donald Trump, the serial sideshow of American politics.

“People are not going to stop writing about him,” Coppins says. “But in the context of a political campaign? I think the political press could do a little better, myself included, making clear that this is not a real political candidate, not a real political figure. This is a sideshow.”